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Prime Minister Luís Montenegro
The old relationship between the Solverde and Luís Montenegro group is staining their position as Prime Minister. And now there is a monthly agreement of 4500 euros that complicates the scenario for the ruler.
The Solverde group, which generates casinos and hotels, confirmed to Expresso that pays to the company of the wife and children of Montenegro, Spinumviva, a Monthly Aldação of 4500 euros since July 2021.
This payment is due to “specialized compliance services and definition of procedures in the field of Personal Data Protection“The weekly reveals the group in Espinho, where Montenegro is natural.
Spinumviva gives “the necessary technical and advisory support, including the exercise of the function of Internal Data Protection and the full implementation of the requirements of the General Regulation on AE of applicable legislation ”, also points out the group in a note sent to Expresso.
Who provides the service that Solverde pays?
The group does not reveal, however, the person, or concrete persons, who provides, or provides, the service.
“I imagine it is not the woman [de Montenegro] which provides these services ”, analyzes the executive director of CNN Portugal, Pedro Santos Guerreiro, in statements on the channel, noting that he has no technical skills for this purpose.
“Even if it is a third party that provides them, that the company has sub-contractor a consultant, we are talking about a degree of suspicion about the prime minister who is serious“The journalist also points out.
Relationship between Montenegro and Solverde started in 2018
Montenegro Worked for the Solverde Group as a lawyer between 2018 and 2022. Was, in particular, the group representative in negotiations with the state, for the extension of Concession of Casinos de Espinho and Algarve. This concession ends later this year.
Until May 2022, Solverde “continued to pay legal services in the amount of 2500 euros per month Montenegro’s law firm ”, the.
When he was elected president of the PSD in 2022, he sold his share in spinumviva to his children and his wife, with whom he is married in communion of acquired.
After that, Solverde began to pay a 4500 euros monthly To spinumviva, payments that continue to this day.
This value represents “30% of the company’s turnover”From the Montenegro family last year, according to the results revealed by the Prime Minister himself in Parliament.
“PERSONAL FRIEND”
Montenegro took over in Parliament, which is “Personal friend of shareholders” of the group, and guaranteed that it will impose on itself “total inhibition to intervene in any decision” that implies solverde.
“As always, and as with any other government member, the Prime Minister will ask an intervention excuse In all processes in which conflict of interest occurs, ”says Montenegro’s office in a note sent to Expresso.
“Either extinguish the company, or leave the position”
For the advisor of state, António Lobo Xavier, it is evident that there is, in this case, “a series of potential business to which a prime minister cannot be connected“According to statements at SIC Notícias.
Pedro Santos Guerreiro agrees and even compares the situation with the, although “with proper differences”, as he stresses at CNN Portugal.
The journalist recalls that Pinho “received 15 thousand euros a month from the Espírito Santo group, through an offshore.”
“A ruler is receiving money from a private company” is always questionable, he stresses warrior, pointing out that “There is no place where this is normal, acceptable or justifiable“.
“You don’t have to be an agent of the Judiciary Police to ask obvious questions,” he adds.
“How can we avoid thinking that Montenegro is not being paid by private companies while? ”, Asks right away.
For the vice president of the Civic Front, João Paulo Batalha, it is evident that Montenegro has only two alternatives: “or extinguishes the company, or leaves office“According to statements to.
Pedro Santos Guerreiro states that, at the very least, the prime minister needs to give more explanations, pointing out that the “” is always problematic in governing functions, even if the visited person does not effectively benefit from the circumstances that motivate him.
The Leader of the arrival, André Ventura, even asked for dismissal of Luís Montenegro, or the presentation by the Prime Minister of a confidence motion, Advances Lusa.
Already the leader of the liberal initiative, Rui Rocha, says that Montenegro “has to decide if he wants to be prime minister or entrepreneur”, and asks for explanations “even today”.
However, it should not happen: according to the public, the prime minister guarantees that he will evaluate the “personal and political situation”, and will speak to the country on Saturday.
